Posts tagged "yearinreview"

• So This Is the New Year

  Published on January 10, 2020

  Dream of the Noughties # It feels like we all just woke up from a collective dream. The dream of the '10s, where we gave our content, perhaps even our personalities, away for free to Facebook. No longer. Not only have I cut that toxic company out of my life, I have also started thinking about how web 1.0 got it right:…

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• Two Hundred and Nine

  Published on January 6, 2010

  A year in review 2009 was a year of many things: it was the year of change and death. More so it was the year of change because of death. Many famous people died that year; my grandfather, who was not famous, somehow also did the same. In April I called him from a phone booth in Beirut at US$2 a minute and had a…

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